Aligning the right information with the right people to make effective corporate decisions is one of the most common challenges facing senior management today. This is not just an IT challenge but is becoming more important at the overall corporate level to make the right investment choices taking into account the goals and objectives of the organization overall and factoring in the elements of risk that a company faces. In order to be successful, organizations must make large investment and capital allocation decisions using a robust approach that analyzes each option’s ‘risk-return trade-off’ and reflects each option’s overall impact on the existing portfolio.

With CA Clarity CPM organisations gain unparalleled levels of visibility and control of corporate portfolios, enabling them to make fact based investment decisions and ultimately decide where to allocate their valuable resources. CA Clarity PPM allows organizations to do their portfolio planning from a top down or bottom up approach. And, with its preconfigured content coupled with the robust configuration capabilities organizations can more easily gain the visibility into their initiatives to help drive current and future allocations and decisions.

In combination with the core capabilities of CA Clarity PPM, the following capabilities deliver a comprehensive solution to support Corporate Portfolio Management:

• Data driven investment decision-making that leads to better allocation of the company’s resources
• Easy identification of low value or badly performing investments
• Strategic planning with the ability to create and assess enterprise-wide investment portfolios